Budget Friendly Renovation Ideas- Before and After Pictures Over the summer, my husband and I purchased a second house for our two sons that are going to college. We decided that instead of spending thousands of dollars on rent, we could put that money into another house. We found a house that was in our…
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Budget Friendly Renovation Ideas- Style Selections Santori Stone Peel and Stick Tiles
Budget Friendly Renovation Ideas- Style Selections Santori Stone Peel and Stick Tiles When we coming up with ideas to renovate our second house, we decided that we wanted to go with more budget friendly renovations and things that didn’t take too long to do but made the space look updated. We considered putting the same…
Budget Friendly Renovation Ideas- Replacing Flooring with Home Decorators Collection Waterproof Laminate Flooring
Budget Friendly Renovation Ideas- Replacing Flooring with Home Decorators Collection Waterproof Laminate Flooring One of the best renovations we have done in our current house was replace all of flooring and install a nice waterproof laminate flooring. We removed all of the carpet 3 years ago and the only regret I have is that we…
Budget Friendly Renovation Ideas-Changing Out Outdated Fixtures
Budget Friendly Renovation Ideas-Changing Out Outdated Fixtures When we bought our new house, one of the biggest complaints I had about it was how dark it was. I really like light and brightness, it just makes me happy. Darkness depresses me, so when we starting thinking about budget friendly renovations ideas, changing out the outdated…
Budget Friendly Renovation Ideas-The Power of Paint
Budget Friendly Renovation Ideas-The Power of Paint Over the summer, my husband and I purchased a second house for our two sons that are going to college. We decided that instead of spending thousands of dollars on rent, we could put that money into another house. We found a house that was in our price…
How to Build a DIY Backyard Patio with Pavers
How to Build a DIY Backyard Patio with Pavers For the past couple months, we have been wanting to transform our backyard into a more grown up/teenager space. The kids are growing up quickly and so we wanted more of a hang out spot than play area. We got rid of our playhouse and that…
How to Install a Dimmable Light with Dimmer Light Switch
How to Install a Dimmable Light with Dimmer Light Switch One of my favorite ways to update my house is changing out the lighting. It’s such an easy way to update a room without having to do a lot and spending a lot of money. You can really brighten up a room (literally) with a…
Dining Room Cabinets- How to Add Extra Kitchen Cabinets
Dining Room Cabinets- How to Add Extra Kitchen Cabinets We have a storage problem in our house. We have a nice big house, with lots of open space but we do not have very big closets. Our pantry is small and we don’t even have a coat closet. So we have to come up with…
No More Carpet in the House- Reasons Why We Removed All of Our Carpet
No More Carpet in the House- Reasons Why We Removed All of Our Carpet Three days before Christmas last year I had a crazy idea, I decided that I wanted to rip out the carpet in my son’s bedroom and replace it with laminate flooring. I’m not sure why I decided to do this 3…
How to Put Laminate Floors on Top of an Existing Floor
How to Put Laminate Floors on Top of an Existing Floor Did you know that you can put a floating floor on top of an existing floor? Yup, it is true! You can put a floating floor on top of an existing floor, as long as it is a level and solid surface. You can…
How to Install Gray Laminate Stairs with White Risers
How to Install Gray Laminate Stairs with White Risers We have been in our house for almost 7 years and we have been wanting to replace the carpet that is on our stairs. Our cats ruined it the first year of living here, so we have been talking about replacing it since then. We thought…
Master Suite Renovation with Gray and White Color Scheme
Master Suite Renovation with Gray and White Color Scheme The master suite, it’s my favorite please in my house. It’s my sanctuary, my place to escape the world and relax. So when it comes to renovating, it’s the first place I want to change. It’s the place that starts it all, I redo it and…
DIY Crafting Table {Vinyl Work Station}
DIY Crafting Table {Vinyl Work Station} A couple months ago, I got an itch to start moving furniture. That is always bad news for me, because it ends up snow balling and I end up changing up several rooms in the house. Whenever I do it, I love the outcome, so I end up doing…
Cove Smart Security System
Cove Smart Security System For several years now my husband and I have been talking about getting a security system. It seems like there are more and more break ins happening and we want to keep our house and family protected. We really talked about getting a security system when there were a few break…
Small Bathroom Remodel Ideas- Bathroom Shelves with Board and Batten
Small Bathroom Remodel Ideas- Bathroom Shelves with Board and Batten We have a 3/4 bathroom downstairs and it is a very small bathroom. When we first moved in, there was ZERO storage space and it drove me crazy. It was definitely built to be a guest bathroom and not be a bathroom that someone uses…
Craft Room Ideas, Organization and Storage {Ikea Craft Room}
We all need a place that we can call our own. That space for me is my craft room. I LOVE my craft room and love being in it. Recently we moved our piano into my craft room and that forced me to reorganize a few things and eventually made me remodel the whole thing. …
Built In Desk with Shelves for Craft Room or Office
In my house we have a formal dining room but we have turned it into my craft room. We have been remodeling it this past two months and I am loving the changes that we have done. In this formal dining room, there is a little nook that is about two feet deep and 4…
How to Build a Large Modern Barn Door
Do you know what your style is? I am gradually figuring out mine. Back when we bought this house there was a lot of browns and traditional features with it. Well as we have been living in it we have been updating it here and there and make things work. We made a rustic barn…
Home Tour- Before and After
At the end of January last year I was going through some stuff and I could tell I was having some major seasonal depression (it was a crazy cold and long winter) and I knew that I needed to start a project to get me out of the funk. What I didn’t know when I…
Tips on How to Build a Closet to Make a Room a Bedroom
Do you have a room in your house that no matter how many times you rearrange it or declutter it or organize it, it is still a big disaster and drives you CRAZY?!? Well that was my boys’ bedroom, which really was a bonus room. It’s a HUGE room which is awesome but also caused…